Michael Lemon serves as the company’s Chief Financial Officer with primary responsibilities in the areas of financial planning, reporting, cash flow management, and risk management. He has held this position for more than two decades, implementing many of the financial controls and processes that have helped facilitate GES’ growth and client diversification throughout his tenure.
Client Challenge
Over the past several years, many major oil companies have vigorously pursued strategies to reduce the overall cost of ownership and increase cost certainty related to their downstream petroleum environmental portfolios. These strategies – each tailored to match the company’s business objectives and needs – frequently utilize some variant of a performance-based contracting (PBC) approach.
Client Challenge
A petroleum marketer made the business decision to close an existing retail operation and relocate its convenience store and gas station operations, including the site’s underground storage tanks (USTs). Management of environmental liabilities dictated closure of an existing petroleum release case as soon as possible. State regulators had disapproved a proposed remedial action plan developed by the client’s previous consultant. An innovative, least-cost yet effective approach was required to meet the company’s business objectives.
Client Challenge
The Commonwealth of Pennsylvania Department of Environmental Protection (PADEP) operates the General Environmental Assistance Contract (GTAC) program, through which selected consultants provide support that includes environmental investigations, studies, remedial design, construction oversight, and other consulting support at hazardous and storage tank sites.
Client Challenge
An oil and gas company, dedicated to responsible energy exploration and production, responded quickly and decisively to a natural gas well control incident. Due to a period of record-breaking rains, a primary containment wall failed, causing a release of 10,000 gallons of well fluid. The production fluid, mixing with rainwater, flowed off the well pad and into nearby pasture, pond, and creek.
Client Challenge
A US-based energy company invests in the development of unconventional onshore oil and natural gas assets. Its commitment to responsible and safe operations requires collection of voluminous data related to drinking and domestic water quality at potential and approved natural gas drilling sites. Data are collected prior to any drilling activities to establish a baseline of water quality prior to well construction and operation.
Client Challenge
A global integrated energy company has invested in the development of natural gas resources in the Marcellus and Utica shale plays of Pennsylvania, Ohio, and West Virginia. The company’s commitment to safe and responsible development stresses that operations at well pads, impoundments, tank pads, and pipeline facilities are completed with respect for the communities and protection of the environment.